Compensation and additivity of anthropogenic mortality: Life-history effects and review of methods

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 408-417

  Péron, Guillaume ^a,b,c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Additive mortality; Capture mark recapture; Capture recovery; Compensatory mortality; Fisheries; Life history canalization; Population growth rate; Recreational hunting; Survival; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CANALIZATION (BIOLOGY); CARRYING CAPACITY; COMPENSATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPLOITATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LITERATURE REVIEW; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION; SURVIVAL; SUSTAINABILITY; WILD POPULATION;

ADDITIVE MORTALITY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CAPTURE-MARK-RECAPTURE; CAPTURE-RECOVERY; COMPENSATORY MORTALITY; FISHERY; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LIFE-HISTORY CANALIZATION; MAMMAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH RATE; RECREATIONAL HUNTING; SURVIVAL; SUSTAINABILITY; WILD ANIMAL;

ADDITIVE MORTALITY; CAPTURE-MARK-RECAPTURE; CAPTURE-RECOVERY; COMPENSATORY MORTALITY; FISHERIES; LIFE-HISTORY CANALIZATION; POPULATION GROWTH RATE; RECREATIONAL HUNTING; SURVIVAL; SUSTAINABILITY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRDS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84873991056     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12014     Document Type: Article

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